Last night I scrapped an entire chapter and started it again. Better. A beat my story deserved rather than the muddled mess that had been there before. Seems like a 4 month break did something really interesting to my focus. I’m really happy with how this is turning out… #writing #writer #fiction

I’m enjoying the process of writing it (although keeling on top of two timelines one of which has significant time jumps) is HARD!

My story is dual timeline. When the reader ends a chapter they pick up with the other timeline, back and forth. My hope is it builds the tension. Every chapter ends with some kick that you have to wait till the next chapter to read the continuation of.

Before that film I’d not seen anything with Pedro Pascal before. Instant fan. Brilliant.

I’ve been using Writemonkey for the manuscript and take my notes in its Repository, basically snippets of dialogue, draft passages, characters and short bios/notable relationships etc.

I haven’t been following any method (on purpose). Just what feels right.

Yeah, I’ve got a LOT of notes reminding me what is going in n with who - I’ve got a dual timeline storyline (set 1000 years apart but completely interlinked) so some sort of organisation is needed!

Same! I’ve only just realised this is how I’m ending up writing. I have a couple characters who are way more likely to go off on tangents if I let them when I’m writing a scene where they feature heavily, I’m prepared! Amazing things have happened to the story because of them…